From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new Emacs HELLO file?? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:16:27 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87pracyn00.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87fxbb7hp1.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <87hbvrk2df.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87tyzr5pq4.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <87fxba1e92.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ab1if6dj.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <83tyzq9eqy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251737208 29664 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2009 16:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , kawabata.taichi@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 18:46:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MiA1e-0003WY-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiA1d-0005m7-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9x5-000341-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:41:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9x0-000315-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35235 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi9x0-00030z-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:50375 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mi9wt-00017j-B9; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:41:43 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.53.175.cable.starman.ee [82.131.53.175]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131ED3F4284; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:23:32 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114911 Archived-At: > > As there are thousands of languages in the world, attempting to add > > every languae unconditionaly may shadow the purpose of HELLO file. > > How can extra languages in HELLO shadow its purpose? > > If we put the most important things at the top, there is no harm > having lots of languages after that. I think there are some 3,000 > living languages. If each one takes 10 bytes, that's 30,000 bytes, > which is no big deal. We could put just one character from every script at the top (like can be seen on the logo of Wikipedia). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/